Dani Pedrosa remained on top on day two of pre-season MotoGP testing at Sepang, but times stayed extremely close.

In a repeat of Tuesday's lead order, Honda's Pedrosa very narrowly edged out Yamaha rival Jorge Lorenzo before rain convinced teams to pack up early.

This time the gap between Pedrosa's 2m00.549s and Lorenzo's best effort was just 0.019 seconds.

Pedrosa's new team-mate Marc Marquez kept himself in the mix again with third, 0.254s off the pace and 0.235s clear of Valentino Rossi on the second Yamaha in fourth.

Cal Crutchlow fended off Stefan Bradl and Alvaro Bautista to take fifth.

Crutchlow's rookie Tech 3 team-mate Bradley Smith got up to speed on day two, jumping to eighth, 0.6s off his compatriot.

Smith beat the two factory Ducatis, although Nicky Hayden at least got the gap to the front down to 1.5s, a half-second improvement on Tuesday's worrying performance.

Aleix Espargaro led the CRT pack for Aspar. Further back in this group, rookie Michael Laverty was an encouraging seventh 'in class' as he got to grips with Paul Bird's Aprilia, while a neck injury limited Colin Edwards' running.

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